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rcu: Don't make callbacks go through second full grace period 

RCU's current CPU-offline code path dumps all of the outgoing CPU's
callbacks onto the RCU_NEXT_TAIL portion of the surviving CPU's
callback list.  This means that all the ready-to-invoke callbacks from
the outgoing CPU must wait for another full RCU grace period.  This was
just fine when CPU-hotplug events were rare, but there is increasing
evidence that users are planning to make increasing use of CPU hotplug.

Therefore, this commit changes the callback-dumping procedure so that
callbacks that are ready to invoke are moved to the RCU_DONE_TAIL
portion of the surviving CPU's callback list.  This avoids running
these callbacks through a second unnecessary grace period.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney 2012-01-10 17:52:31 -08:00 committed by Paul E. McKenney
parent 8146c4e2e2
commit a50c3af910
1 changed files with 46 additions and 6 deletions
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kernel/rcutree.c
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@ -1270,24 +1270,64 @@ static void rcu_cleanup_dying_cpu(struct rcu_state *rsp)
struct rcu_data *receive_rdp = per_cpu_ptr(rsp->rda, receive_cpu);
struct rcu_node *rnp = rdp->mynode; /* For dying CPU. */
/* Move callbacks to some other CPU. */
/* First, adjust the counts. */
if (rdp->nxtlist != NULL) {
receive_rdp->qlen_lazy += rdp->qlen_lazy;
receive_rdp->qlen += rdp->qlen;
rdp->qlen_lazy = 0;
rdp->qlen = 0;
}
/*
* Next, move ready-to-invoke callbacks to be invoked on some
* other CPU. These will not be required to pass through another
* grace period: They are done, regardless of CPU.
*/
if (rdp->nxtlist != NULL &&
rdp->nxttail[RCU_DONE_TAIL] != &rdp->nxtlist) {
struct rcu_head *oldhead;
struct rcu_head **oldtail;
struct rcu_head **newtail;
oldhead = rdp->nxtlist;
oldtail = receive_rdp->nxttail[RCU_DONE_TAIL];
rdp->nxtlist = *rdp->nxttail[RCU_DONE_TAIL];
*rdp->nxttail[RCU_DONE_TAIL] = *oldtail;
*receive_rdp->nxttail[RCU_DONE_TAIL] = oldhead;
newtail = rdp->nxttail[RCU_DONE_TAIL];
for (i = RCU_DONE_TAIL; i < RCU_NEXT_SIZE; i++) {
if (receive_rdp->nxttail[i] == oldtail)
receive_rdp->nxttail[i] = newtail;
if (rdp->nxttail[i] == newtail)
rdp->nxttail[i] = &rdp->nxtlist;
}
}
/*
* Finally, put the rest of the callbacks at the end of the list.
* The ones that made it partway through get to start over: We
* cannot assume that grace periods are synchronized across CPUs.
* (We could splice RCU_WAIT_TAIL into RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL, but
* this does not seem compelling. Not yet, anyway.)
*/
if (rdp->nxtlist != NULL) {
*receive_rdp->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_TAIL] = rdp->nxtlist;
receive_rdp->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_TAIL] =
rdp->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_TAIL];
receive_rdp->qlen_lazy += rdp->qlen_lazy;
receive_rdp->qlen += rdp->qlen;
receive_rdp->n_cbs_adopted += rdp->qlen;
rdp->n_cbs_orphaned += rdp->qlen;
rdp->nxtlist = NULL;
for (i = 0; i < RCU_NEXT_SIZE; i++)
rdp->nxttail[i] = &rdp->nxtlist;
rdp->qlen_lazy = 0;
rdp->qlen = 0;
}
/* Record a quiescent state for the dying CPU. */
/*
* Record a quiescent state for the dying CPU. This is safe
* only because we have already cleared out the callbacks.
* (Otherwise, the RCU core might try to schedule the invocation
* of callbacks on this now-offline CPU, which would be bad.)
*/
mask = rdp->grpmask; /* rnp->grplo is constant. */
trace_rcu_grace_period(rsp->name,
rnp->gpnum + 1 - !!(rnp->qsmask & mask),